Clear or Override Forced Line Breaks?

This is probably really simple, but I searched the help file and didn't find it.
- How do you clear all forced line breaks in a paragraph?
I'm editing text that we thought was fairly final, and I usually work in Preview mode as it's cleaner and easier to see what's going on. But I'm fearful of any forced line breaks that I may not know about that could mess up the paragraph flow after I make changes. The text is fully justified.
I know I can work in Normal mode and turn on 'View Hidden Characters' to see them. But even with that, they can sometimes be small and hard to see depending on the complexity of the type and how zoomed-in I am.
- Isn't there a simple key command to override forced line breaks?
THANKS!

OK. Thanks. I knew that would be an option, I just think I confused a couple other features with what I was hoping to do.
I may have been confusing 'Clear Local Overrides' when updating a paragraph style, and the ability to have certain things highlighted (custom tracking/kerning, glyphs, etc.), with an ability to clear forced line breaks with a simple key-command or palette menu item.
Thanks, though.

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poopyhead
Not sure about the nasty webforum tags there, but this would
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poopyhead 
This is an isolated line of text - invalid if not within some
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poopyhead 
Ditto above, except following XHTML tag syntax. This line
would be invalid
on a page with an HTML doctype.
>I have put that code in the blog.css file over and over
again to no avail.
> I think the blog editor overrides it or something. I
Even put those
> IMPORTANT!s behind it. :)
I suppose we'd have to know about your blog editor.
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